In May this year the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will roll out the drums to celebrate a landmark 50 ...

The AU, founded in May 2001 and headquartered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, is a union of 55 member states that work together ... and the Organization for African Unity (OAU) that preceded it. Under their ...

The 46th Ordinary Session of the Executive Council of the African Union took place in February 2025 in Addis Ababa. The ...

Even though Africa is often told to move on, the legacy of colonialism continues to shape its struggles of external debt ...

Having replaced the Organisation of African Unity, AU has been fighting hunger, wars and political instability unsuccessfully ...

He had been Foreign Minister for two decades; it meant he had practically attended all Organisation of African Union, OAU/AU, Summits in the last 20 years. The fact that Djibouti with a population ...

But with the expansion of the African Union Commission’s staff from roughly ... Building on the three terms of the Tanzanian OAU secretary-general Salim Ahmed Salim (1989–2001), the commission ...

Joshua Chimakula Ngoma in his book reveals the acuity of his commitment to educating young Africans on organic and ...

Born and raised in Addis Ababa, Wolde says the building — which hosted OAU meetings until the organization was replaced by the African Union (AU) in 2002, which eventually moved into new ...

Following seven rounds of balloting, 60-year-old diplomat Mahmoud Ali Youssouf was elected the sixth chair of the African Union Commission in February 2025. Politics professor Ulf Engel, who is the ...